Travel Impressions Launches Gay, Lesbian Travel Webinar

Travel Impressions created an introductory webinar designed to familiarize travel agents with the recently launched TI Gay & Lesbian Travel program and its related website, www.travelimpressions.com/gaytravel.

The webinar gives travel agents a full tour of the website’s features including destinations, hotels, news and events that gay travelers will find interesting and travel agents can use to close a sale. It also walks agents through the steps of how to use the program’s most powerful tool, the gay-friendly verified hotel database.

To help travel agents become involved in the growing gay and lesbian travel market, the TI Gay & Lesbian Travel program consists of two parts: a website featuring gay-friendly travel options and resources from around the world that can be accessed by both agents and consumers for research purposes and a booking engine just for travel agents; and a database of gay-friendly verified product, allowing travel agents to confidently book appropriate packages for their clients.

The TI Gay & Lesbian Travel program features a gay-friendly verified product line. Currently there are over 1,000 properties in more than 150 destinations participating in the program. These destinations and hotels are truly interested in the gay and lesbian travel market. Each one has been contacted by Travel Impressions and has opted for inclusion, agreeing to be referred to as a gay-friendly property.

Travel Impressions defines gay-friendly properties as those which are open to actively welcoming gay and lesbian vacationers, and extending the same service levels, courtesies and professionalism as they extend to all other visitors.

The properties are located in the continental United States and Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, Tahiti and South Africa, with more destinations to come. Niche travel is also a growing segment of the gay and lesbian travel market.

To help travel agents, the website features special sections for romantic vacations, family vacations, group vacations, tours, gay and lesbian events and hot deals. Since online research is so important to gay and lesbian travelers, travel agents can confidently suggest to their clients that they browse the program’s website, www.travelimpressions.com/gaytravel, for ideas.